Journalists get donations from colleagues as effects of Covid-19 bites

 Some of the food Items which a section of Journalists have benefited from the kitty fellow Journalists initiated recently.A total of 22 journalists have benefitted from it in Five Counties-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

 By Dickson Odhiambo

May 9, 2020

Journalists get donations from colleagues as effects of Covid-19 bites

A NUMBER of Journalists operating in five counties across the country have benefitted from donations from their colleagues who have sympathized with them as the effects of Corona Virus continue to be felt across various parts of the country.

The Journalists under the initiative of Journalists for a Journalist has donated funds which has been used to purchase food items that has been distributed to their colleagues whom they feel are vulnerable and been affected by the Corona virus pandemic which has affected their work in one way or the other.

Addressing the press during the distribution of the food items today in Kisumu, a member of the Committee that has overseen the process of collecting funds and the distribution of the food items Faith Matete said the initiative has benefited 22 journalists in five counties.

Matete says the five counties include Kisumu, Siaya, Migori, Homa Bay and Nairobi where the Journalists who are vulnerable were picked to benefit from the initiative.

She says in Kisumu County, seven Journalists who works mostly as correspondents and Freelance Journalists have benefited from the kitty.

Matete whom together with her colleague in Kisumu coordinated the event says there has been challenge in identifying the needy journalists but the committee has tried its level best to come up with the list.

Migori County has eight journalists who have benefited from the kitty while Nairobi has four.

Homa Bay and and Siaya Counties have 2 and 1 respectively who have equally benefited from the initiative.

The Journalists for Journalist Initiative intends to have the round two of the donations which will now cater for a bigger number of journalists since most of them are vulnerable.

Immediately, pictures of the initiative were splashed in the various social media platforms, a number of Kenyans have lauded the bold step taken by the Members of the fourth estate to stand with their needy colleagues at this time the country is  facing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Siaya Based Journalist Olivia Odhiambo has been Chairing the ten-member Committee which the Journalists mandated to oversee the process. 

The scribes have lauded the efforts of the committee for doing a commendable job.

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